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paste.gg Storage
fails: quotaanonymousno cardRper-object-cap
| Free tier | 10 MiB total per paste, 5 MiB per file. Anonymous pastes expire after 7 days; signed-in pastes can be permanent. Built on Cloudflare Workers. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Per-object cap | 5 MiB per file (5242880 bytes) |
| Retention | Anonymous pastes expire after 7 days; signed-in pastes can be permanent (7 days) |
| Egress | free, served from Cloudflare's edge (Workers) — effectively CF-covered, cacheable, no metering. |
| Identity | anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: 10 MiB total per paste, 5 MiB per file. Anonymous pastes expire after 7 days; signed-in pastes can be permanent. Built on Cloudflare Workers. CF Workers edge means fa |
| Limits | 10 MiB total / 5 MiB per file; 7-day expiry anonymous; visibility public or unlisted when anonymous. |
| Binding | per-object-cap the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota |
| Interface | rest rest |
| Tooling | https://api.paste.gg/v1/pastes, JSON body {name, files:[{name, content:{format:'text', value}}]}; no key needed for anonymous, returns a deletion key. API keys available at Settings -> API keys. |
| Composes with | unlimited anonymous pastes x up to 10 MiB, but 7-day anonymous expiry makes it a hot/cache tier only. With free accounts: permanent pastes x unlimited per account — that is the only archive-shaped path. |
| Reliability | CF Workers edge means fast global reads and no egress bill. Anonymous content is dropped at 7 days by design; signed-in is required for anything you want to keep. |
| Notes | 10 MiB total per paste, 5 MiB per file. Anonymous pastes expire after 7 days; signed-in pastes can be permanent. Built on Cloudflare Workers. |
| Evidence rung | reported One page read moves it to documented. |
| Checked | 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04 |
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Evidence (2)
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | paste.gg/ | 'All pastes: up to 10 MiB total and 5 MiB per file', 'Anonymous: public or unlisted, with expiration after 7 days' |
| 2026-10-21 | api.paste.gg/v1/pastes | probe: POST with 1 file -> {"status":"success","result":{"id":"89d9c016...","visibility":"unlisted"}}; GET /p/anonymous/89d9c016... -> 200 |
More fields (2)
{
"unit_note": "free_tier.unit is 'mixed' because the headline is denominated in MiB or KiB, which the schema enum does not carry; the verbatim free_tier.stated keeps the true unit. See the storage-dossier handover.",
"dead_end": {
"failure_class": "retention",
"why": "10 MiB total per paste, 5 MiB per file. Anonymous pastes expire after 7 days; signed-in pastes can be permanent. Built on Cloudflare Workers.",
"retry_when": null,
"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
}
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